Alana Rocha

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Director, Collaborative and Rural Initiatives, The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN)

Austin, Texas

Arts and Entertainment, U.S.

As seen in: The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), Medium, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Chron, Salon, Constant Contact, RawStory, KHOU-TV (Houston, TX), KPRC-TV (Houston, TX) and

Covers: Rural, Politics, Policy, Texas, Public Speaking, Nonprofit News, News Literacy

.@INN's Dir of Collaborative and Rural Initiatives. Shaped by @TexasTribune @SpectrumNews1TX @KWCH12. Seasoned millennial. Tweets son míos. #GoGators

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Insights

A series of essays offering an inside look at the nonprofit news industry and valuable takeaways from Rural N…

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Falling Short: Rebuilding elderly care in rural America

Rural nursing homes across the country, already understaffed, face significant new federal staffing requireme…

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Rural Realities: Education, workforce and progress

People are growing more skeptical about the value of higher education. This five-part series from the Rural N…

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Speaking Out: Rural communities of color changing the narrative

This six-part series from INN's Rural News Network explores issues rural communities of color face and what s…

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INN's latest rural collaboration enables on-the-ground reporting, builds community trust

In Breaking Point, four INN member newsrooms who participate in the Rural News Network (RNN), collaborated to…

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Best of: Pandemic Parenting on Live TV

At the height of the pandemic, I was home, representing The Texas Tribune on television news affiliates acros…

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Alana Rocha | The Texas Tribune

Alana Rocha was the director of news partnerships for The Texas Tribune until June 2022, where she previously…

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Political Coverage

A mix of news reports from the 2012 presidential campaign trail and political issues affecting Texans.

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Texas Roundup: Tax cuts, preschool and college tuition

In 2015, The Washington Post published a series of The Texas Tribune's Texas Roundup video recaps. In this pa…

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As seen in NYT

In 2013-14, The New York Times published nearly two dozen news reports and videos I produced during my time c…

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